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Food delivery startup Munchery folds, leaving small businesses on the hook

By Sam Harnett
February 19, 2019
Three Babes Bakeshop employees at a bake sale protest outside of Sherpa Capital, one of the VC firms that invested in Munchery. 
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The future of American infrastructure might lie in public-private partnerships

By David Brancaccio
February 06, 2019
Then-U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke (L) and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao (C) watch US President Donald Trump speaks wave during his visit to the U.S. Department of Transportation on June 9, 2017 in Washington, D.C. 
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The promise of investment in "cutting-edge" technology came out of this year's State of the Union.

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There's tons of money in venture capital, as long as you're a big company

By Molly Wood
January 23, 2019
Venture capital firms invested a record amount of money in private companies last year, but a lot of it went to "unicorns"--companies already valued at over $1 billion.
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Do early-stage startups still have a chance at funding?

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Hedge funds set their sights on local newspapers

By Amy Scott
January 15, 2019

A fund has offered $1.3 billion for Gannett, publisher of USA Today. Critics say beware.

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Exodus of Chinese investors from Silicon Valley is real. But how much does it matter?

By Jed Kim
January 09, 2019
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U.S. legislation is making Chinese investors balk.

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Investing while foreign-born: The advantages of being an immigrant venture capitalist

By Nina Roberts
December 06, 2018
Co-founders of One Way Venture in Boston, Semyon Dukach and Eveline Buchatskiy.
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Immigrants comprise 13.2 percent of the U.S. population, yet 20.6 percent of the country’s entrepreneurs are immigrants, according to a 2016 report from the New American Economy.

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Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian on today's entrepreneurs

By Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
December 04, 2018
"I think that now is a better time than it's ever been if you have a hobby, if you have a passion, and you're building a following on Instagram ... to potentially turn into something that could be a real business," Alexis Ohanian says.
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There's "more of a wokeness to these founders," he says.

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Meet the company training up more diverse startup founders

By Molly Wood
November 15, 2018
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Founder Gym offers tools for anyone who wants to start a venture-backed company.

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The low-fee wars have no end in sight

By Justin Ho
October 11, 2018
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Management fees race to the bottom as investors embrace passive index funds.

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